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Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

Rubber stamps with stencils bring out the best in each other.  Bold  lines come from the stencil contrast the fine details of a rubber stamp.  Working together they created a quick art journal page.

There is lots of inspiration for using stencils with rubber stamps in this blog hop with Lost Coast Designs Rubber Stamps and StencilGirl Products!  All the hop details and giveaway info are at the end of this post.

Watch Using Stencils with Rubber Stamps on YouTube.

Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

 

Starting with a Gelli print.

 

 

 

 

 

Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

 

 

Fruit Pods was stamped over the entire page with Salty Ocean Distress Ink.

 

 

 

 

Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

 

 

Stenciling with the 1700’s stencil created the main image.

 

 

 

 

Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

 

Light Mandelas and a Gelli print with yellow paint created the moon.

 

 

 

 

 

Video tutorial using rubber stamps and stencils together on a Gelli print by Carolyn Dube

 

 

A layer of white paint and journaling.

 

 

 

 

Supplies Used

The prize is a$25 credit in the Lost Coast Designs store and  two 9×12 stencils (you can see them over at StencilGirl Talk)  to ONE lucky winner!

How do you win the giveaway?  Just leave a comment on my blog for a chance to win!  Want more chances to win?  You can leave a comment on each and every blog with a total of 15 chances to win!  You’ve got until Sunday, March 30th at 11:59pm CST, when the giveaway closes.

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  • Pam Robinson ,

    Carolyn, I always enjoy watching your videos. You always make me smile with you witty remarks. This time it was “Some days I have the attention span of a squirrel”. Oh my goodness!!! Your page spread is amazing. I got so excited when I saw the journaling, I thought it was a stencil (such perfection). LOVELY page!

    • Pam Robinson ,

      Thanks for the blog hop and for the chance to win this amazing prize!

  • Jayne Saddington ,

    Love watching your videos Carolyn, they are always so honest, they make me think I too can get great results if I can just let it happen. Love this page.

  • Ruth L ,

    I love this idea Carolyn, to stamp under the stencil, now I need to try to play with it…

  • Lissa ,

    I love how you put it all together!! As alway!

  • This is simply stunning! Love all the details! You always make everything look so easy! Love your videos, too – have watched you in action more than once! Very happy for the opportunity to participate in this blog hop with you!
    Hugs,
    Leslie
    Love To Scrap!
    Love To Scrap! Challenge Blog

  • Viki B ,

    I am loving that stencil and how you did the background! It looks wonderful!

  • thank you carolyn love your youtube video just getting into it and had to do a page yesterday thanks for all the help and love the contest.

  • Eileen L. ,

    Very interesting. Loved your video I have wondered what a Gelli Plate is and how its used thanks for the video and a chance to win the giveaway.

  • Jessica ,

    Fabulous! Love the colors and the stamping. TFS Jess

  • Michelle ,

    Great job!

  • I always love your designs and this is no exception. Thanks for the chance to win!

  • Love all your videos. Thanks for tip on stamping under stencil.

  • Gloria Westerman ,

    I love your creative art….and this stencil is awesome…I’ve subscribe to just about everything…hope to see ya soon..tfs

  • elle ,

    This is a great combo. Thanks!

  • Kris H ,

    Carolyn, your videos ROCK !!

  • Felicia ,

    I love this page Carolyn. I love the simplicity of it and the color scheme!! Thank you for sharing your creativity and the opportunity to win!

  • April Lopez ,

    Love this. And I love your videos.

  • Cindy Goedel ,

    I love the paisley stamping all over the page and then covering it with white paint so it looks like just the house has paisley – ingenious! Another new blog to put on my favorites. Love the journaling as well. I wish my handwriting were as good.

  • Great combination of elements. Love the moon. xox

  • Marcy ,

    Carolyn is here! Yeah – Follow all your you tube stuff. I knew it would be an exciting display! Love it!

  • Andrea ,

    Absolutely love the effect you achieved. And your sense of color is awesome.

  • Ruth ,

    I liked the stamping over the gell print…I am gong to go try that. Smiles, Ruth
    PS: I would love to win…I NEED some new stuff!!!!

  • Wonderful! video and step by step photos!!! that building stencil is going on my wish list. thank you
    stamping sue
    http://stampingsueinconnecticut.blogspot.com/

  • Wow! Carolyn , lovely combination of stamps and stencils. VERY nice!!

  • Carrie ,

    This looks like such fun!

  • Donna ,

    Beautiful work!!! I Love stencils!!! New ones would be Awesome!!!!

  • Suzanne Wiegand ,

    As much as I love Stencil Girl Stencils; I love Lost Coast Designs stamps just as much! The detail and variety of their stamps are just incredible! I own several but I’d certainly love to have more!!!

  • Nicki Senn ,

    Love this! Time to get the gelli plate out. Just adore this stencil! Thanks so much!

  • Really enjoyed the video!!! Love how you used the Mandela stamp for the moon and how the background stamp is just visible on the house. Fab project!!

  • HelenRae ,

    Love love anything you do! You are my inspiration!

  • Erin K ,

    Amazing giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win!

  • HelenRae ,

    Love love everything you do!

  • SusanK ,

    Hmmm…more gelli plate art. Maybe I’d better look into this. Love the stencils and stamps you chose – perfecto!

  • Zina Kagchelland ,

    Very Artsy I like it! 🙂

  • Miranda ,

    thanks for the giveaway! 🙂

  • Your videos make me smile, Carolyn… and I love that you say “my” stencil. Isn’t that cool? Cool stamps you chose. Yellow and blue… dreamy.

  • Melody S. from KS ,

    Another hit in my book Carolyn! I love the pods stamp and the stencil you used rocks! Thanks for sharing!

  • stampsalot ,

    Nice example of the combination of stamps and stencils. And thanks for the details instructions.

  • wendy ,

    Carolyn your artwork is outstanding. You make me want to get some gelli’s and stencils right away. Thanks for sharing your talent.

  • Susie F ,

    I want that stamp….Will order sooooon.

  • wonderful project, thanks for the video too, and for the lovely comment left at my blog!
    I am so glad to be participating along your side in this Blog Hop! cheers
    Bibiana (DTM Lost Coast Designs)

  • I love your videos Carolyn! Great project and I really like that mandala stamp!

  • Beautiful page!

  • Always love watching you play! I like the way you used the stamp to create an all-over pattern … looks so cool in the house stencil.

  • A GREAT background. LOVE the choices you made here Carolyn.

  • Jackie Brockett ,

    I too am inpatient when it comes to things drying out so I can get on to the next part of the project. I look forward to more of you art work.
    Jackie

  • Hetty ,

    Wonderful art!!Thanks for the video and I get my gelli plate out and give this a try.

  • Marty Robinson ,

    My Braun is exploding with all the wonderful ideas!,!

  • Carolyn, have I told you lately how brilliant you are! 🙂
    Love these layers of blue with the accent of yellow and the way you integrated the rubber stamps! Outstanding!

  • Well, I have to say first ….WOW!!! I have had the desire to get into mixed media and am fortunate to have found you via this blog hop! Loved your video and teaching style so much that I am now a follower of your blog and youtube channel!!! Looking forward to catching up on all your previous posts and videos!

  • Cheryl ,

    I love this page. It’s simple but very cool. I love the use of the gelli prints. I have amassed a pile of them and needed ideas for ways to use them. Thank you!
    And thanks for the chance to win some new supplies…being unemployed has put a crimp in my ability to sample new products.

  • Lisa ,

    Love the color and all the layers
    Thanks

  • Such a fun and fabulous creation! It’s been fun blog hop with you!

  • Stamps and stencils are like peanut butter and jelly

  • JKW ,

    You always stretch my learning of art and I am enjoying every minute of it. You put all of those (gelli, stencil, stamps) together into a beautiful painting. I am loving all the new supplies and creativity I am able to come up with. This week it was Zentangles for me. Blessings, Janet PPF

  • Cheryl ,

    and thanks for adding the video to your blog. I love watching you work!

  • Carolyn, your videos and your work, always make me smile. And I love this because I love your houses and train station etc.

    I have a question. I get that you never, well perhaps I should say rarely, go up and down when putting the paint on the stencil. BUT, if you are not going to go up and down, I am interested in why sometimes you use a brush and other times you may not. Is it just what you reach for???

    Also, why a stabilio pencil? I know what it is, but do you think it works better here or???

    You know, you like color. But I ask questions. Inquiring minds want to KNOW.

    Great job.

    Tommy

    • Carolyn Dube ,

      Hi Tommy,
      Brushes cover a lot of area quickly and I have patience issues. I also love love love when paint runs under a stencil. Brushes give a different look than sponges and allow for wetter mixing of colors that sponges have for me. That said, I like sponges too – they give a different look than brushes for me.

      Stabilo pencils write over anything with a nice dark line. It is one of my favorites.
      Hope that helps!

  • Bronwen ,

    Such lovely colours! Your projects are always inspiring! 🙂

  • NancyLee ,

    You are a hoot! Your vids are so fun to watch!
    Love the colors! Neat idea for a page.

  • Thanks for always using videos to show your techniques — I’ve watched all of them, some of them over and over!

  • Lura Brown ,

    i am loving what you do ALWAYS!! you are one talented lady. the partnership of the fantastic stencil girls with the stamp company lost coast designs a pairing made in heaven. pure awesomeness. thanks for the inspiration and chances to win. xoox

  • Fabulous as always and such great colours too. Thank you x

  • Always fun to see your videos. Nice to see what you did with a gelli print. 🙂
    Great giveaway, too.

  • Janene ,

    I subscribe to your blog and always enjoy your videos. Stamps and stencils, I’ll be hopping along blog to blog.

  • Ela ,

    Wow, your journal page had me so hooked, that I almost missed that there’s a video…

  • Paulette Roy-Serre ,

    Love the your technique and that stencil!!

  • Yvonne Irish ,

    Love the idea of the quick art journal page, and yours is lovely! This blog hop is awesome!

  • Loyce ,

    My personal definition of art is something of which I never tire of admiring. Your work satisfies the art seeker in me. I wish I could hang this on my wall and gaze at it every day.

  • Susan Schultheis ,

    Great art piece using SG stencils and LCD stamps…two of my most fave companies! I watched the video tut and want to thank you for the inspiration. Thank you for the opportunity to win some great stencils and stamps.

  • I always love your videos, Carolyn! 😛

  • Bonnie Rabon ,

    Very nice techniques. I may have to get a gelli plate and try for myself. Thanks for sharing. 🙂

  • Denise Spillane ,

    Carolyn, love this. I love the stamps chosen, colors and of course stencils. I am itching to get my stamps out too!

  • I love your use of Gelli printing and especially love the mandela as a moon!

  • TheresaV ,

    I love the colors you used and the project!

  • Thanks for the introduction to a new stamp line (for me). I’m going to be checking those out.

  • Linda on the Prairie ,

    You are the Duchess of Gelli! I must have the 1700s stencil and the stamp selection was just the right touch.

  • Janet Castle ,

    Wonderful combo using the Gelli plate, stencils, and stamps…love the project! TFS your video too!
    Jan

  • Teresa R ,

    Love the building stencils. Need more stencils and stamps in my collection

  • teresa ankeney-mackenzie ,

    Your work is amazing, I am looking forward to watching your videos.

  • Kelli J. Getchell ,

    I am loving this hop as it is introducing me to new artists to watch and learn from. Nice to meet you Carolyn!

  • Lexie Jansma ,

    I really enjoyed your color combinations and I am definitely going to have to start following you on youtube! Thanks for all the colorful inspiration!

  • Cath Sheard ,

    Love this – the moon rocks! I always enjoy your videos because you obviously love what you are doing.

  • total gorgeousness Carolyn!!! as always- Love your art!! Such a super idea! TY! “)

  • HOw fun! I should get my gelli plate out and make some more papers! I love the stamping under the stencil. This is a technique I need to try!

  • Kris Rink ,

    Love it!

  • Gunvor ,

    I really love what you created with the stamps and the stencils. Thanks for the inspiration!

  • ShannonWL ,

    This blog hop is great. Thank you for participating. We’ve seen stamped images as the focal point of a mixed media project and now a stencil image. Awesome. I tend to use both as background in my mixed media but will be re-thinking that in the future.

  • Love watching you work, my friend. Another great stencil ala Carolyn from StencilGirl!

  • Awesome video! Holy smack earls I love this quick page, mine take too long. Love the inspiration:). Thanks for sharing!

  • Gill ,

    Thanks Carolyn – the Queen of Gelli printing!

  • coco ,

    merci pour le blog hop!
    kisses
    coc♥

  • zoetsi ,

    Wonderful project. Thanks for sharing!

  • Robin B. ,

    A Gelliprint, a stamp and a stencil…what could be better. Beautiful page!

  • Marita Summers ,

    I enjoyed your video and especially your carefree easy style! I still have lots to learn on mixed media – now I just need to find more time to play!

  • Clair Marie ,

    I love, love, love the colors you used. Gorgeous! Very inspiring!

  • Annie ,

    I loved this video and all of your videos.
    Thanks, Annie

  • Dorothy ,

    I’m loving all the wonderful mixed media sites I’ve seen so far on this hop. Love the technique you shared. Trying to sign up for your newsletter, but not sure if it went through. Thanks for sharing.

    • Carolyn Dube ,

      Just sent you an email…we’ll get it figured out!

  • elizabeth ,

    Great spread. love watching your videos

  • Wendy ,

    Love the mandela moon! Great idea.

  • Love the stamp AND the stencil – a great combo there!

  • rarecat ,

    Thanks for the blog hop. I like my gelli plate it adds extra colour. I enjoyed your page stencils and pods lovely colour everything !!

  • ~Jo~ ,

    WOW that was an awesome video! I am one of your newer subscribers and I am really enjoying what you do. I hear you talk about gelli prints but what exactly is a gelli print? Where can I get one? I love how your journal page came out and how simple it was to create. I have never tried anything like this before but I definitely want to! Thanks for the chance to win also!
    Hugs,
    ~Jo~

    • Carolyn Dube ,

      Gelli Prints are made with a Gelli Plate, which is a form of monprinting- a fun and playful way to play. I have a bunch of Gelli Printing videos at https://acolorfuljourney.com/?page_id=6439 to give you an idea about what it is. There is a link at the top of that page to where I buy them. I also have a bunch more Gelli videos on YouTube. Hope that helps!

  • Laura from VA ,

    Loved your 1700’s video. You put a lot of work into your work (LOL) to make the process do-able for us beginners. I am so glad I found you!
    Now to get blog-hoppin!

  • Becki ,

    Love the combo of the fruit pods stamp and the 1700’s stencil.

  • Marguerite Harty ,

    As always your work is awesome, and great ideas, thanks.

  • SueEllen Hayler ,

    This is my first visit to your blog. After reading all the comments I am going to have to watch your videos. you are obviously well respected for your work. Thank you for being part of the blog hop. Otherwise I might not have found your blog.

  • Deborah M ,

    Love this! Thanks!

  • Wow, love your stuff – layering stencils in stamps, and vice versa – can’t wait to try that! Rolling…

  • Rebecca Buchanan ,

    Your videos are always so much fun and your work beautiful. Love the way you pulled together so many elements here. Thank you!

  • Laura Quick ,

    Love your color choices and the subtlety! Thanks for sharing!

  • Gelli print, stencils and stamps? Right up my alley, love it, Carolyn!

  • Susan Anderson ,

    Watching you takes al the anxiety out of mixed media! Mistakes allowed…yay!!

  • angi eharis ,

    i knew yours would be my fav! oops, don’t tell anyone, aloha, angi in hana

  • Love everything about this. Simplicity with impact. Great color.

  • cindyzs ,

    great info and tutorial!!! another one (you) i will be following!! i love your creativity!! ….i will be following you!!! love your blog! thanks. i would love to win some supplies i want to get back to making homemade for my loved ones and friends! they used to love getting handmade goodies from me. i love everything crafty, diy, creative, artistic,….thanks 🙂 a big thanks to the frugal crafter, Lindsay for leading me to all of you with this blog from stencilgirl and lost coast designs thanks so much 🙂

  • Julia ,

    I get the hop thing! How much fun and all the great work shared by all of the talented artists.
    Love your use of color here and how it all came together with stamps and stencil.
    Thank you for sharing!

  • Maria ,

    Thanks for giving me a way to enter this contest with an e-mail address. Interesting how you used the gelli plate.

  • I love all of the layers you built up on this. Great job!

  • Denise Bryant ,

    Beautiful piece! The Gelli Plate intrigues me! Great color combo!

  • francine perri ,

    wow would love to win these stencils thanks!

  • Shraddha Knight ,

    ….am wondering what this gelli print is?….I am taking a mixed media journaling class that meets once a month with the theme of ancestors & childhood….I am grateful I found your site just yesterday as it is helping me “let go & silence that inner critic”….I love your kick back it’s going to be okay attitude….mahalo!

  • always fun to see you create, lovely page